In Praise of Bacon and Eggs

So Miss Sothron is still convalescing from a severe bought, and then relapse, of flu. That's what she gets for going to town last week. So I'm fending for myself. (Hence the 'round the clock pipe smoking and alcohol drinking). So I'm making myself bacon and eggs for dinner. I picked up two dozen eggs from the hay barn (where the birds like to lay) earlier this afternoon. So no problems there. And I was able to get my hands on a bunch of fresh bacon from a fella down the road. So I've been living on bacon and eggs for breakfast and dinner. What a great meal - can't be beat.

I can't believe various interests have been able to malign bacon and eggs and scare away so many folks from these great foods. I fry up the bacon, drain the grease, and then add my eggs. Fry that mess up, flip it once or twice, and feast on a grand mess of bacon'eggs.

Big fan of bacon and eggs. When we go camping/hunting we'll yard out the biggest cast iron pan we've got, fry up a pound of bacon, drain off some of the grease (optional), pour in a bag of frozen hash browns along with a dozen eggs, stir it all up and a finer breakfast has never graced the great outdoors. Love it.

Dave- there's such a difference in texture, color, and flavor between fresh and industrial eggs, isn't there? It's a shame so few people get to experience them. Though I guess the same can be said for a variety of common staple foods from milk to beef, to vegetables and fruits. With eggs, I suppose the difference is just set in sharper relief.

I love bacon and eggs... normally with my eggs scrambled. There's just something about scrambled eggs. And doing what I do for a living, I am a part of many people's meals... as I am the one that sells them their thick sliced smoked bacon out of my counter. Bacon makes everything better.

Eggs too (fresh eggs, not what you get from a grocer), but Oh My GAWD, I love BACON!

But since it's around $3 or more a pound, I mostly don't buy it, both out of protest, and because I'm a cheapskate ....also because I want to leave a few bucks for my one of my kids when I get dead....but mostly because I'm a cheapskate and don't splurge on myself for anything besides pipe tobacco and booze.

I like bacon and eggs in all their various forms.
A particular favorite is to pour beaten eggs over the bacon before it gets crispy (though crispy is good too)!
The resultant omelet is pretty rich in terms of fat, but as an occasional indulgence it can't be beat.

I find myself sitting idly on the line dividing past and future,
as if I could kill time without injuring eternity. -- Thoreau

I am most certainly a bacon & eggs guy! My favorite meal. Eggs over easy. Love an English Muffin on the side with Orange Marmalade.
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Bacon and eggs were the main staple at our hunting camp...but everything ended up cooked in tons of bacon grease (image of drooling Homer Simpson comes to mind). Bacon, eggs, steak, potatoes, beer and whiskey for a week...

If you think eggs are bad for you then you are reading the wrong books

According to my wife, the RN, the view on eggs has changed over the past few years, so we can happily eat 'em.

I love bacon, but, since I no longer have a gall bladder, I only eat turkey bacon. Trader Joe's sells some that is very good. No, it's not the real thing, but it will do nicely. (Uncured, not nitrates or nitrites.)

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I think eggs and bacon get a bad rap for cholesterol. I enjoy them several days a week (5-6 days). I'm not a doctor, but in my observations, cholesterol problems are more likely due to genetics and consumption of sugars. When I was on the Atkins diet, I ate bacon and eggs every morning, along with other evil things like red meat, etc. When the doctor took my cholesterol, it was well below the limits. When I was off the Atkins diet, and eating "normally", my cholesterol levels were elevated above where they had been. My great grandfather lived on the farm all his life and ate bacon and eggs everyday. He also ate lots of red meat and pork chops, roasts, etc. He lived until 95 and it wasn't heart disease that took him. I think all things in moderation and try to eliminate as much of the processed and sugary foods that you can is the best way to go.

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Roth, Jud is right. You may want to look into adding eggs and bacon back into your diet more regularly without fear of raising your cholesterol.

That said, I spent the day at the ER with Miss Sothron. A farm girl, she hasn't been sick in many years. But this bug has her bit badly. So I'm on my own again. No bacon-n-eggs (had 'em for breakfast again). But a long night of smoking ahead of me.

But my favorite breakfast involves frying up some hash browns, chopping the bacon into bits, scrambling the eggs, and mixing it all together to be either topped with green chile sauce and cheese, or wrapped up in a tortilla which is then smothered in green chile sauce and cheese.

I love bacon. In fact, if you ever get to Camden Yards, go to Dempsey's restaurant, they have bacon on a stick. That's right, a HUGE slab of bacon, smoked, grilled and then BBQ'd bacon, ON A STICK!

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anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life,
nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”